What Is Justice? brings together many of the most prominent and influential writings on the topic of justice, both before and after Socrates. It features historical selections by Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, and Engels and excerpts from the Bible and the Qur'an, as well as recent work by Rawls, Nozick, Walzer, and Nagel. In this new edition the editors have further expanded and updated the contemporary readings and included work by Gauthier, Hampton, Baier, and new selections by Rawls.